Monday, September 8, 2014

Eight million people missing in Myanmar

Just finished watching Myanmar defeat Thailand 2-1 in a soccer
match. The Philippines is hosting a regional cup type thing, and if
I understood my Burmese correctly, Myanmar now moves on to play
Indonesia in the finals.

I'm such a homey. I've lived in half a dozen different American
metroplexes, and now a handful of Asian countries. When it comes to
sports, I always root for the home team. Consequently, I'm a fan of
a whole bunch of different teams, but wherever I'm at, I scream and
cheer for my homeys! Take THAT you Ayutayans! We still kick your ass!

Side note of interest: the word in Burmese for Thailand is
Ayudaya. An entire country named after a kingdom we crushed 250
years ago.

Did I say 'we'?

Well, since I sat and watched it, I feel like part of the 'we'.
This goal by Htke Htke Aung as just awesome.

I heard my neighborhood chanting “HTKE! HTKE! HTKE!” after
that goal. If you can hear in your head what a chant of Htke sounds
like, you get an A+ in Asian phonics. The goal ain't on YouTube yet, but I'll post it when it gets there. Very Youtubeworthy.

'We' are having some problems. We had a census a couple months
back. The first one in 37 years. Previously, the population had been
just estimated. Now that we've counted each other, we got a bit of a
problem...